1. These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab.
2. It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
3. In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the Lord had commanded him to give to them,
4. after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.
5. Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to expound this law, saying,
6. "The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, 'You have stayed long enough at this mountain.
7. Turn and set your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negev and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
8. See, I have placed the land before you; go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to them and their descendants after them.'
9. "I spoke to you at that time, saying, 'I am not able to bear the burden of you alone.
10. The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number.
11. May the Lord, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand-fold more than you are and bless you, just as He has promised you!
12. How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?
13. Choose wise and discerning and experienced men from your tribes, and I will appoint them as your heads.'